US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 30 for "Parking assist apparatus" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,428,031, issued on Sept. 30, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Parking assist apparatus" was invented by Yuki Minase (Toyota, Japan), Tsutomu Mochida (Shizuoka-ken, Japan), Keisuke Oyama (Nisshin, Japan), Daiki Maruki (Toyota, Japan) and Yu Hiei (Nagoya, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A parking assist apparatus is configured to perform a deviation control including at least one of a first notification control and a stop control when the parking assist apparatus determines that a vehicle that is performing an automatic parking deviates from a learned route. The parking assist apparatus is configured to learn, as...